Stories of an Imaginary Childhood
Melvin Jules Bukiet

"An extraordinary achievement, an immensely enjoyable collection of truly remarkable tales."
—Susan Miron, Miami Herald

In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.

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August LC: 2002022781 PS
204 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-18074-3 Paper $17.95 t

Library of American Fiction

Winner of the Edward
Lewis Wallant Award

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction

1992 paperback, Northwestern University Press